Several school-age children injured in a school bus accident were brought to the ED. Family members and friends paced back and forth in the waiting room. Members of the crisis team were called in for the primary purpose of:
a. Waiting with the families and friends
b. Facilitating understanding and providing support
c. Determining the level of individual family coping
d. Assisting the medical team with the physical injuries
ANS: B
A crisis team is able to provide immediate emotional support to friends and families who are distressed over the event and the state of victims, and they are able to facilitate understand-ing of the event by teaching. The remaining options do not reflect the function of crisis in-tervention teams.
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